1960s
Macmillan talks on house building
Nixon & Kennedy Debate.
dancing, stage production, clapperboards, floats, buffet, dancing, Selassie greeting guests.
Good Views Ethiopian Landscape, religious types, gardens and buildings, street scenes, construction, city hall being built, model of city hall, construction, traditional Ethiopian musicians, children, training centre, planting, sowing, technicians, health centre, clinics, children, Blind school, blind children, braille, handicrafts, town life, foreign teachers, students, schoolchildren and students, Selassie University, wildlife, camels herding, fertile land, cattle, hydro-electricity, pan waterway, irrigation, crop development, pan river, cotton fields, sowing and cultivating the land, sugar estate, sugar harvesting, sugar production, agriculture, cattle herding, slaughterhouse construction, progress scenes, markets, pan Ethiopian landscape, Washington, JFK, Selassie met by JFK, Good Selassie & JFK, Kennedy speaks of welcoming Selassie to USA and talks of League of Nations and other events, Kennedy speaks of 29 Independent African countries, Selassie addresses Kennedy and USA, Motorcade through Washington, Selassie on Potomac river, White House, Selassie & Kennedy, State Banquet at White House, Selassie at Lincoln Memorial, Selassie lays wreath at memorial, Kennedy and Selassie at Woodmont country club, Selassie receives honorary degree at Georgetown University, New York scenes, Selassie at La Guardia airport, meets mayor and Adlai Stevenson, motorcade through New York, ticker-tape, Selassie addresses UN general assembly re League of nations and later events, Selassie leaves USA, Ottowa, Selassie arrives in Canada, travel shot through capital, motorcade through, Government House, Selassie sees Mounties, wreath laid at cenotaph, leaves Canada, Selassie in Guinea, Dam opened and visits power-station, traditional dancing, Selassie, Selasie in Mali, Malian army marchpast, motorcade, Selasie leaves Mali, Selassie in Morocco, traditional dances, cavalry display, Selassie visits souks of Marrakesh, Selassie in Algeria, Algerian city scenes, motorcade, leaves Algeria, arrives in Tunisia, motorcade to Palace, visits ruins of Carthage, Selassie and Emperor’s speech, toast, Selassie arrives in France, with De Gaulle,at Ethiopian embassy, arrives in Mali, Algeria-Morocco peace treaty signed, Selassie and Tito in Yugoslavia, Selassie and Tito at Metropole Hotel banquet, reception with Tito, Addis Ababa, coronation ceremonies for Selassie, motorcade and coronation anniversary, reception, Cairo scenes, Selassie in Cairo, with Nasser, motorcade to Palace, with Nasser, Tower of Cairo visit, views Cairo, with Nasser, arrives back in Addis Ababa, salutes, to Imperial Palace.
21 Gun Salute in Kaduna, Nigerian flag raised, decorated buildings, cheers, fireworks, Bida Airport, Gawain Bell greets Princess Alexandra, princess greets Nigerian dignitaries, bouquet presented, motorcade away, to palace, walkabout, Kaduna airport & princess arrives, greeted, motorcade away & to Luba Hall, Princess hands over charter of independence, Princess & premier on balcony, sultan and princess, motorcade through, Durbar, racecourse, traditional dances, cavalry past, Gawain Bell, Princess to premier’s house & with premier in garden, Sokoto market & princess, presented with leather pouffes, Princess to North-east Durbar, Princess leaves the North, Kanu airportto Emir’s palace, Alexander leaves Kanu by plane.
Nkrumah visits Ghana, meets Abubaker Balewa, Nkrumah inspects Guard, meets ministers, reception, Governor arrives, Nkrumah to naval base, to Yaba Trade Centre, Nkrumah tour of workshops, civic luncheon and Nkrumah toasted, Nkrumah addresses luncheon, Diamond centre, diamonds weighed, beach reclamation, Nkrumah speech on West African Unity, manufacturing, Nkrumah press conference at Airport re local government, Nkrumah leves nigeria.
3rd Summit meeting of the OAF, Nkrumah, Liberian President Tudman arrives, Tudman & Nkrumah, band, Tudman & Nkrumah inspect Guard of Honour, Tudman to car, motorcade, Freedom fighters monument tour, car away, flags, view from car of Accra, international airport and arrivals, Nasser arrives and greeted by Nkrumah, Dada of Mauritania arrives, Selassie arrives, Nyrere arrives, Hastings Banda & Tudman hug, conference opens, Tudman welcomed, leaders at conference table, Nasser opens the conference, Nkrumah takes chair, Jawawra of Gambia, Tudman to garden party, conference arrivals, Tudman, night tattoo, Selassie & Tudman, Tudman at embassy, fireworks, Tudman leaves Accra by Air.
NIGERIA – waterfall, nuclear explosion, mosque & prayers, general Olusegun Obasanjo interview on nuclear war, African armaments, funeral, drought scenes, NPT treaties, map of conflict zones, West African Map, African vox pops re war, beach scenes, fairground, colonial
hand-over ceremomy, Obasanjo interview re British assertion that Nigeria will not last 10 years, handover scenes, busy Nigeria, Nigerain scenes, conferences, Nigerian independence, map of Nigerian regions, elections, military scenes, funeral, Nigerian generals, newspaper headlines, Yakubu Gowon talks of regional conflict in Nigeria, Emeka Ojukwu interview on civil war, Hassan Katsina on events of May 1966, Biafra Republic declared, Map Ghana, Gowon, “we represented the people of our tribe”, biafran conflict, good Biafran war scenes, aircraft, Western countries aid, Selassie, Niamey Conference, Biafra surrenders, war scenes, war museum, Interview on Nigerian losses, ‘NO VICTORS NO VANQUISHED theme, Nigerian scenes, disparate citizens, generals, military scenes, generals, military parade, Haruna interview, Nigerian newspaper office, health services, chemists, innoculation, doctors, patients, schools, university and students, graduates, Map, agriculture, harvesting, irrigation, livestock, heavy machinery, new homes, rural scenes, pan lake, sunset, parades, war injured, spinning globe to Africa, graduates.
Tema Harbour development. Building Tema Harbour.
good old graphic of empire, Hong Kong, Fiji, Malaya, Salaam, good commentary “Africa home to more primitive peoples”, Palestine, Gibralter, West Indies, Caribbean, Colonial office sign, good colonial office scenes, African villages, pan cattle, mandarin talks of Africa, research stations at Wellcome, Trinidad, research, white students of Empire, training administrators, East Africa, pan African countryside, cattle herders, pans, tribes of East Africa, dancing, good night dancing, carrying wood, cattle, African types, disease, pan construction, good comm “initiative of the white man”, hydro-electricity, Mombassa, medicine, maternity, babies, malaria treatment, malaria prevention, swamp reclamation, pan marshes, tsetse fly, pan Tanganyika forest, scientists, research, sleping sickness research, inspections in Uganda, pan hills, malnutrition, milking, agricultural training, planting, livestock, ploughing, markets, Masai, cattle, soil erosion, land reclamation, herders, cattle migration, schools, farm school, Uganda college for Africans, broadcasting, cinema, broadcasting house, Malcolm Macdonald Secretary of State for the colonies gives broadcast, modern Africa, Nairobi railway works, football game, scouts, colonial types and Africans, meeting tribes, tribal trials, Lukika parliament, Big Ben, wireless & cable communications, tickertape, Nairobi, Sir Robert Brooke in Nairobi, agricultural show, pan African types, African reads, commentary “times have changed”.
Pub scene, domestic scene, story about home security, ransacking house, pawn shop, policeman enters, fence in pawnshop, breaking in, keys, breaking-in, chase, in cell, pub scene.
Accession to the throne by the Kabaka of Uganda November 1942, Pan Kampala, Amirembe Cathedral, Bishop recieves Kabala and H.E. the governor, Colonial types, the Kabaka arrives to take oath with governor Sir Charles Dundas, African rifles inspected, archpast, the Kabaka takes the oath of Allegiance, dancing, drummers, musicians, military band, children march past, flags carried, the Kabaka at garden party Lubiro Palace, African & colonial types, wrestling, Budo hill, huts, Saza chiefs assemble to greet the Kabaka, Kabaka & Katakiro & Semanobe, Kabaka to chapel of King’s College Budo, Kabaka proclaimed, Kabaka presented with emblems of duty, justice and enduring authoruty, colonial types, Kabaka invested, Kabaka carried along, celebrations.
Northern Region Development Corporation of Nigeria offices, council meeting on Shendam resettlement, agenda, Northern Nigerian vilages & farms, tribal life, farming on infertile soil, (1962), pan new village settlement, surveyors, building dwellings, new villages, agriculture production, cultivation, drums, groundnut & cotton production, rice production, happy village life, children play, washing, water carrier, wells, grazing lifestock, school bell & primary school, truck past camera, markets, village produce, co-operative farmers, tribal dances, h.a.s. large village, busy roads, shell refinery, industrial scenes, corned beef production, good production scenes, beer and soft drink production, animal skin tanneries, tanning process, groundnut oil & butter production, groundnut oil & flour, dairy, Northern Nigerian textile factory, training school & students, hotel construction, factories, markets, re-settlement.
Northern Region Development sign.
Health & Baby Week – Lagos 1956 – Obe Adele opens baby week, health parade, Governor General Robertson arrives and greeted, colonial types, dancers, floats and people past, walk past, judging winners of parade, Health & Baby week exhibition, mothers & babies, babies, swimming pool, diving, closing ceremony.
THE NORTH REJOICES – Nigerian Northern House of Assembly meeting 1959, self-government bill to be ratified, Sir Gavin Bell arrives, colonial types, Union Flag unfurled, pan Northern Nigeria, towns, river trade, bridges, elegiac dusk, agriculture, villages, village activity, harvesting, tree-cutting in Northern Nigeria, water falls of Abuja, canoes, primitive fishing, tribal artworks, dance, cattle, Lake Chad fishermen, March14/1959 – Commonwealth Status achieved, Sultan of Sokoto, night of self-government, council of ministers, fireworks, celebrations, ministers arrive, Gavin Bell arrives at Lugard Hall, Sultan of Sarduana, Governor declares self-government for Northern Nigeria, Premier in Sokoto, police inspection & march past, cavalry, celebrations, displays, construction, logging, Sultan of Sokoto, muslim prayer, Sultan and others, fast over, procession, Sultan speaks to his people re independence, Federal election posters, voting, ramadan celebrations, procession, Governor, dancing, self-government construction works, preparing for celebrations, dancing, snake dances, hyena , Kaduna and Durbar, Bornu contingent, celebrations.
Fight against Yaws, Oji river settlement Eastern Nigeria, pan Eastern Nigeria, doctors, WHO, local chief, villagers, examine children, innoculations, examinations, yaws sufferers, farming, village building work, Local Health Centre, official opening of health centre, village types, dancing, Ministers meeting on development, meeting in progress, farming land and villages, village types, farming the land, villagers being resettled.
Kenyan Art, hut making, village life, basket-making, pottery, making utensils, firing pots, carry pots on head, Plainsmen of Barotseland Northern Rhodesia, trading, village life, grinding corn, cooking, boatmen, fish traps, trapping fish, nets, fishing, cattle, white farmer, cattle, innoculate cattle, herding cattle across lake, modern village, village life, festivities, dancing, drums, dance for chief, water carnival, warriors on large boat, boat ceremony, boats laden with produce, shore greetings, dignitary, ornamental soldiers, dignitaries from boat, traditional scenes, witchdoctor dancing, Id Ul Haj Baraza in Kenya, mosque, muslims pray, muslim dance, dignitaries, white diplomatic types greet muslim leaders, regimental scene, muslim type and white colonial types confer, salute, flag, European types & Muslim dignitary, handshakes, muslim dance, muslim dignitaries past camera, procession,brightly dressed muslim children, pan along muslim types, children play, stalls and fair, carousels, fairground, Northern Nigeria (sound), New Emir of Ilonen Sulu K Gambari installed, ceremonial dance, celebrations, drumming, foreign dignitaries attend including Sardauna of Sokoto and Alhaji Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, motorcade, installation ceremony performed by Sir Gawain Bell, royal salute, Guard of Honour inspection, procession, Emir’s arrival, Iman administers ancient oath, Emir installed, staff of office given to emir, villagers marchpast, horsemen, tribes represented, wild tribal celebrations, council of chiefs pay homage, motorcade leaves, Royal Occasion, 1953, Southern Rhodesia, pan Salisbury, royal motorcade past, steam train past, Bulawayo, motorcade and cavalry escort, Queen Mother & Princess Margaret, flags, Princess Margaret opens Central African centenary exhibition, pan exhibition gate, the Court of Rhodes, Queen Mother & Princess Margaret, Queen Mother & Margaret inspect traditional craftwork, village visit, traditional tribal dances, pole dance, good dancing, Matabele homeland and cecil rhodes resting place, religious ceremony, visitors at Rhodes resting place, royal train past arrives at Gwelo, Queen Mother greeted at station, onlookers, motorcade away, Queen Mother & Margaret on dias & presented with flowers, arrives at Que Que & greeted at station, cheering crowds, train arrives at Catooma, citizens greet royal visitors, train leave , countryside view from train, good train view past of traditional village, good section, motorcade, Christmas Pass, Queen Mother unveils monument to Kingsley Fairbridge, Garden party, Queen mother presented with doll by children, Leopard Rock, Queen mother at Leopard Rock, pan hills, crossing bridge, Queen mother with townspeople, walkabout, motorcade, Queen mother inspects the Zimbabwe ruins, Morganster Mission visit, Queen mother presented with painting, Royal train arrives in Salisbury, motorcade through township, cheering crowds, hospital visit (Princess Margaret Hospital), meets coloured and Asiatic community, Princess presented with flowers, motorcade and cavalry guard to Ceremonial event for Rhodesian African rifles, Queen mother presents colours, marchpast, visit to site of multiracial university, C.U Queen mother, lays foundation stone, motorcade through cheering crowds at Manquende reserve, Queen mother opens Agricultural show, African Womans’ Club foundation stone lain by Margaret,dancers, attend police display, highland dancing, pipe band, bands marchpast, displays, Salisbury park garden party, presented with flowers, arrive at airport, onto plane and leave South Rhodesia.Princess Margaret 1956 Southern Rift Nyanza Provinces, Margaret arrives and greeted, in garden of lodge with others, Margaret with tribal elders, motorcade, with African types, motorcade, Margaret waves from jeep, Archbishop of Canterbury visits Kenya 1955, Mau Mau war graves, archbishop in procession, ceremony, Rally to the Standard Lagos children see Queen 1956, children’s rally, motorcade, Queen from car and greeted, children wave, Queen waves from car, queen watch rally, dancers, stilt dance, dancing, Northern Nigeria Emir of Kano receives C.M.G. 1955, procession, Emir arrives, inspects guard of honour, receives C.M.G., motorcade away.
Kenya – Family living with animals, tribespeople, medicine man, sweeping, missionary hospital, ward, food prepared, dispensaries, doctors, treating sick, child-care, children, mothers, mission school, cooking classes, washing classes, baby-care, exercises, handicraft classes, carpentery, farming teaching, crops, corn, livestock, football game, African homestead scenes, cultivation, mother & babies, village life, ploughing, washing, cash-crops.
Title, sailing boat, Dar El Salaam scenes, Livingstone memorial, map, coastline, pan countryside, Kilimanjaro, Wachaga tribe, coffee cultivation, board meeting, Masai tribe and cattle, pan masai crater, Serengeti reserve, tourists, rainfall, soil erosion, cultivation, Pangani falls, hydro electricity, pylons, sisal cultivation, diamond mining, road building, Dar El Salaam, markets, industrialisation, trade schools, health services, medical school, education, Governor, elections 1959, Nyerere, polling stations, voting, julius Nyerere wins election, 1961 Self-government, 1961 Independence.
Troops (UN?)European car on road, distraught and injured man as wife is shot (possibly dead – very graphic) distress, injured women from car, troops, chaos, distraught Europeans, town, Europeans on street and at widows, roller skater, dead woman, troops across bridge, UN troops
Aerial & street views Kenyan city, Livingstone Primary school. classroom, various schools, children play football (Black & white, tribal village, slum village, village activity, washing,New Stanley Hotel, Neon lit nightlife, Nightclubs, dancing (mostly whites) Kenya police, captured Kimathi?, Mau Mau prison camps, colonial meeting, Kenyan independence meeting, interview with Jomo Kenyatta, crowds cheer, Jomo, open air rally, Jomo and crowds, Kenya meetings, coalition government agreement, Jomo speech, Kenyatta & Mboya K.A.N.U. poster, plane arrives, Jomo from plane, delegates from plane, cheering crowds, Jomo on jeep, motorcade, Jomo, cheering crowds, troops, colonial types from plane, greetings, Government House, photocall, relaxed scenes, meeting, speech by governor?, wreckage, Kenyan police, hospital, injured, protests, police, troops, British embassy, street scene, KANU, queues, KADU, voting, rallies, Jomo, celebrations, Mboya?, Jomo, supporters, Kenyatta interview re election, Kenyatta sworn in as leader of Kenya and speech, crowds, Kenyatta swears allegiance to queen, Kenyatta jubiliant, cheering crowds, Lancaster House, Kikuyu settlement scheme, pan village, colonial types served by servant, white farmer and black workers, farming scenes, smallholdings, cultivating smallholdings, making huts, milking, farm activity, Kenyatta speech re Kenyan government and racial harmony, Kenyatta, political rally, dancing, Kenyatta speech.
Addis Adaba scenes, airport, Selassie & Nyrere mount dais, board plane.
Accra, OAU posters, OAU road signs,flags, tracking shot, Welcome to Ghana sign & map, airport arrivals: Nasser, Nkrumah, Mochtar Auld Dada, Selassie, Nyerere, Sadat present, Tubman, conference building, Hastings Banda, Selassie & Nasser chat, Sadat, Tubman arrives & Selassie, exterior building, arrivals, meeting in progress, interpreters etc, various leaders at meetings, night display & parade, Selassie leaving Accra.
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